Three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and one soldier seriously wounded when the military vehicle they were traveling came under a powerful LTTE claymore mine attack in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Wednesday evening.
Three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and one soldier seriously wounded when the military vehicle they were traveling came under a powerful LTTE claymore mine attack in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Wednesday evening.
Military sources said that the LTTE cadres detonated the claymore “targeting an military vehicle transporting food items at Chundikkulam in Jaffna at 5.20 pm.”
The injured soldier has been admitted to the Palaly Military hospital.
‘43 surrendered’
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe said that “43 LTTE cadres from the Thoppigala jungles have surrendered since April this year to the Security forces” who were stepping up their military campaign to capture the last LTTE stronghold in the eastern province.
Placing the number of LTTE cadres killed during the ongoing operation to capture Thoppigala jungles since April as 188, Brig Samarasinghe said that only nine soldiers had been killed so far.
Addressing a media conference in Colombo, the military spokesman said that one of the LTTE surrenders has revealed that the LTTE was keeping 73 people, including a government soldier at the LTTE Thoppigala camp. Brig Samarasinghe said that the advancing troops have “destroyed three LTTE satellite camps in Narakamulla east area and killed about 25 to 30 cadres on Tuesday.
